linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

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Message-ID: <1334239768.5300.6495.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:09:28 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	drepper@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 12:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> This whole thing is getting stupid. "Perfection is the enemy of
> success".
> 
> Your code will also fail when the cat pees on the computer, when the
> power fails and when disk dies. I suspect that other than the cat these
> are all more likely real world cases than your ENOMEM.

Time to open a thread on G+ and close this one I guess.


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